St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-01
NUMEROUS LIBEL SUITS.
MIR. Stewart After the Nfinneap polls
Tribune in Dead Earnest.

Mr. Stewart After the minneapolis
Tribune in Dead Earnest.
To the Editor of the Globe:
In the Min neapolis Tribune of Nov 6, 1885,
it stated that was fined for burning rubbish
on my place. March 20 it asserted among
other things, that the Tribune was going to
sue me that week for 500, 000 aud Mr. Blethen
and Mr.. Haskell each individually Tor as much
more for libel. March % it stated as fact
that C.L.Smith had sued me for $50, 900 for libel
also. In this morning paper, March go, Mr..
Blethen SympathiZeS with me in my Affections
OF libel suits and says he knows how it is
himself. And this last part of the last State
ment of his own experience is the only grain
of truth there is in the whole Of the forego-
ing statements. The rest are all utterly de-
void Of truth and were well known to be so
by Mr.. Blethen when he made them, in pur-
suance of his ordinary honorable, manly
style of warfare. But even he knows better
than to allow any of the above suits and
thereby give me chance to lei little whole
some daylight in on them. l much prefer,
when it is possible, to live peaceably with
everybody, and was never the aggreSSor in
any case. And whenever | have been on
other than friendly terms with others. it has
invariably been forced upon me, and com
PEELED me to fight TO repel imposition. And
notwithstanding all the indignities and i'm
positions had suffered at the hands of the
Tribune and its managers, still preferred
peace to war, if it could be maintained with
out sacrificing decency and self-respect. And
l therefore proposed by letters to Mr.. Blethen
and MIR. Haskell Aug. 20, 1856, that if they
would make plain statement in their Sun
day paper of Aug. %, that the Scurrious
letter that they printed in the issue of Aug. s,
purporting to have been written by me to
them, was not written by me, but Was d fab
rication of their own, and that thereafter they
let me entirely alone. thatI would let by-gones
be by-gones. and leave them alone. But that
unless they did make that statement in the
paper and let me alone, I would sue them for
the libelous things they had printed about me.
Ihey did not print the retractiOn, and have
sued them as ] promised. Under our present
libel law newspapers have to be notified three
days before suit can be brought. of what is
claimed to DE erroneous and libelous in their
publications. to give them chance to correct
or retract what they have published. 1 have
served notice on the Tribune to retract their
libelous and false statements in their issue of
March 20, which they have neglected to do,
and the papers are being prepared in Ii Del
suit No. 2. Notice is also being drawn up to
serve to withdraw and correct the remainder
OF the false statements made above, and also
the slurs and innuendoS in the issues OF
March 20 and 90. And as soon as the three
days after notice served has expired and
corrections are not made, suit No. 8 will be
brought. And as L want to learn how much
OF this sort OF abuse and imposition q citizen
is obliged TO stand from such people and such
papers, whenever hereafter the Tribune pub
fishes an impudent fling or inputation in re-
gard to me, they will be notified to retracu
and apologize, and if they do not. then Mr.
Blethen and Mr.. Haskell individually, and the
Tribune company collectively will be sued.
and this will certainly be done every time 1t
shall occur during the remainder of Mr.
Biethens limited sojourn in Minneapolis
Now, the managers and the Tribune company
have chance of demonstrating which of US
nd mi r1ai Nf
diversion. I intend to see good deal more
or good deal less of my name in the Mime
apols Tribune, and they may elect which it
Shall be. T.. NJ. STEWART.